The difference between Hybrid, Native and Web Apps

What are Hybrid, Native and Web Apps? What are their uses?

As you know, creating an application has a significant effect on increasing sales and business prosperity. Before you want to create an application for your business, it is necessary to first familiarize yourself with the concepts of native application, hybrid application, and web. Get to know the application (Web App) so that you can choose the right app for your business.

native application

Native application Native Apps):

This application has been developed since 2008, which is in the design and development of Android applications using the Java programming language, whose SDK is supported by Google.

1. This application is used when you need to access phone features such as camera, speaker, GPS, and also when you need strong interaction with the device's native operating system.

2. When you intend to make a game with good graphics and sound.

3. When you intend to build a banking application with a payment gateway.

4. When you don't need different platforms for the program.

Advantages of native application:

This application has access to all phone features such as memory, GPS, camera, etc.
Application development in this way has many advantages over other methods in terms of security and usability.
It is recommended for application design projects with many applications and capabilities.
Users can use these applications offline.
It has a higher user experience than methods such as hybrid.
Most circuits and startups use this method.
These apps are usually developed using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, C# or complex game engines and frameworks.
High speed is the most important advantage of these apps.

Disadvantages of native application:

Lack of compatibility with different platforms, native apps are not cross-platform, and to have the program on different platforms, it is necessary to rewrite the codes for the desired platforms.
Note: Cross Platform includes a group of programs that can be run on several different platforms.

You need professional skills to update the smallest app changes.
High cost due to long development time

Opchar It develops its applications natively. The problem of cost and time has been eliminated in Apchar because this system has already been coded and users can easily use the obtained output.

Hybrid Apps:

It is a new method for developing applications that uses Phonegap, Apache Cordova technologies, and uses HTML5, CSS, and Java Script codes to create applications for different platforms. Facebook and LinkedIn are two famous sites that use this application.

Application:

1. For commercial applications that require basic and basic operations and do not intend to use high graphics and animation.

2. When you want to create an application for all three platforms, Windows, Android, iOS, but you don't want to pay a lot of money.

3. When your application must be constantly updated. You can add features using HTML5.

4. When you are not sensitive to the operating system and its performance because it has a low speed.

5. When you don't plan to design a game application.

6. When you plan to design a commercial application that does not require high audio and video effects.

Advantages of the hybrid application:

Easy conversion of website to application.
Compatibility with different platforms are hybrid applications (multi-platform Cross Platform).
Low cost compared to native apps due to compatibility with different platforms.
Convenience and speed in updating and making changes in the application.

Disadvantages of hybrid application:

Users cannot use this application offline because it requires user data so that the user can access the facilities.
In terms of security, it is weaker than Native.
It cannot be viewed on different platforms without using webview.
If you use a lot of audio and video effects, it cannot be as fast as Native.

Web Apps:

An application that can be accessed through the Internet and is supported by a browser. In other words, they are responsive mobile websites.

Application:

1. When you have an application, you also need a website.

2. When you need the contents to be visible in a unified way in the browser.

3. When you don't intend to spend a lot of time and money on making an app.

Advantages of the web application:

Its development cost is affordable.
Responsive websites are like applications and do not depend on a particular operating system because they operate independently of platforms.
It is not necessary to put it in the markets and it is opened with the browser of the phone.

Disadvantages of web application:

It has weak information security.
Its functionality depends on the browser of the user's mobile phone.
It has poor marketing because it cannot be expanded through markets.

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